Design of public areas
- Annie BOYER & Elisabeth ROJAT-LEFEBVRE - Aménager les espaces publics. Le mobilier urbain. - 327 pages, lavishly illustrated; Paris (Editions du Moniteur, "techniques of design” collection);1994.
A work dealing with urban street furniture, particularly in stone, with countless examples; the administrative section is naturally based on French legislation concerning the subject.
- Marie DEMANET & Jean-Pierre MAJOT - Manuel des espaces publics bruxellois. - 164 pages, illustrated with line drawings and photographs; Bruxelles-Capitale Region (pub. Iris); 1995.
A masterly summary of all the issues relating to the development of public areas, with a chapter specifically devoted to exterior floor coverings, including stone.
- Francis TOURNEUR - La pierre et la rue. - 167 pages; Ministry for the Walloon Region, Namur; 1998.
This volume is devoted to all the uses of stone in public areas, with an introduction based on the historical perspective, technical developments concerning shaping and laying, and an illustrated panorama of examples throughout the Walloon Region; in French, with summaries in Dutch, English and German.
- Han MEYER, Frank de JOSSELIN De JONG, MaartenJan KOEKSTRA - Het ontwerp van de openbare ruimte - 272 pages; Sun, Amsterdam, 2006.
This work is the second component taken from a research project devoted to town planning supervised by the University of Delft and explores in turn various elements of urban architecture.